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05/12/2025 

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A triple sandwich in the supermarket is 3 triangles, = 1½ sandwiches = 3 slices of bread.  That probably informed my interpretation of this.

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04/12/2025 

You can see how long it took me to twig it was her hair.

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How old are you (roughly) and where are you from?
Standard G&T demographic, 40 m uk.
I forgot about stones too, but haven’t weighed myself in those since I was a kid. On the last Taskmaster series, I was surprised that even the younger ones were guessing Alex’s weight in stone, I’m probably just ignorant.

I’m younger than you, that’s so interesting.  The only reason I know my metric weight because of having to submit it for medical reasons, and I stopped wanting to know what my weight was was so switched to kg (only stones have any real meaning for me, not kg).

With Taskmaster I don’t know if it was necessarily their choice; the contestants presumably just used the scales as they were set up as they were only allowed two readings.  Alex uses stones himself but on this occasion that may not be relevant if it’s the default used in horseracing still.  I mean as far as I’m aware they still use hands and furlongs so to use metric for jockeys’ weights would be incongruous!

Raw honey in Canada is weighed in pounds, even if we of course sell the finished goods in metric.
But I mean, stone just sounds heavy.

Preserves here too, mostly – sold in metric but the weights match with lbs and oz.  Honey, jam, marmalade, etc.  Fresh milk is in pints (unless it’s been processed more than standard, e.g. filtered) and UHT is in litres. 

We are a real mish-mash, and as evidenced even by this thread the units used as a vernacular aren’t even consistent by generation!

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I didn’t know this was a thing, but I guess it’s like how I don’t know what pounds and ounces are because I was raised metric. It makes sense, RIP time.

How old are you (roughly) and where are you from?

Back on the subject of analogue clocks, do they not have them in public places in America?  Over here they’re on town halls and supermarkets with clocktowers, although thinking about it a lot of them have Roman numerals instead of Arabic.  But I just can’t imagine children not being curious and wanting to know what it says.  Every school classroom still has an analogue clock over here too, partly for the teachers to easily keep track of time and partly to keep the skill of reading them alive.  I’d say it’s a bit more relevant to modern life than lbs and oz since only babies are measured in those (informally) now, recipes are all metric – or if they’re not, they’re in cups not weight.  (I STILL don’t understand that, volume for most non-liquid ingredients is inconsistent; weight is consistent.)

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03/12/2025 

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02/12/2025 

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I missed a day after my streak ended.  Annoying.

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30/11/2025 

… and now my streak *is* done for.

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29/11/2025 

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Wow, I thought my streak was done for there!

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28/11/2025 

7 (phew)

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27/11/2025 

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26/11/2025 

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25/11/2025 

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24/11/2025 

G&T

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My mum always watched it, so I’d catch bits and bobs, then I became an ardent viewer around the mid 90s       Same for me, but probably a couple of years on. The Platt teen pregnancy, Roy and Hayley, and less controversial plots about and for the oldies.

I looked up their fates years later and it was like reading dark fanfic.

Similar for me too.  When it started feeling more like Eastenders (‘affectionately’ called ShoutShout in our house, we didn’t watch it) with all the conflict, and the plots became more unbelievable, I stopped watching.  Since we didn’t have a TV until 2000 or 2001 I guess I must have watched it for around a decade, give or take a couple of years.

It is an interesting thought about going back to the start.  One thing about soaps is they are good time capsules of the mundane aspects of daily life, especially technology, home decor, fashion, etc.  The historical aspect appeals to me. 

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23/11/2025 

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22/11/2025 

Officer Rimmer

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(Hooray!)

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21/11/2025 

Hoping this doesn’t turn into a streak

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So I thought I’d try and get back into this …

20/11/2025 

Well, things can’t get any worse from here can they?!   (Initially I was going to say ‘can only get better’ but realised they could stay the same.)

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Excellent!

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It is unfortunate yet tragically apt that Enconium (SS Enconium in Timewave) is perilously close to ‘meconium’. 

A google search shows it must have been based on ‘encomium’, but I wonder how many people know of that vs how many know of meconium.

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There is no salvaging Krytie TV *or* the original concept.

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Samsara is the only one I can think of right now.  It’s odd in that the two sets of characters never meet yet their stories are intertwined – which is actually quite an interesting device, it just feels weird because it’s not usual for Red Dwarf.  I always laugh at the Lister/Cat scene, probably more so since I know what’s coming and start enjoying it in advance.

I don’t know if The Beginning counts; I’m aware some others don’t enjoy it as much as I do and it’s not one you’d use to introduce someone, but I really like it.  A lot.

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Picard in The Inner Light as well, except they gave him a family then took it away, so that’s fine.

Much less traumatising than being made Borg, to be fair.  Might not have shaken him as much as if he’d not already gone through that.

… and a tangent of thought led to me parallels between the Borg and the Goa’uld.  When we see them on screen as baddies we automatically despise the characters, but in both situations there’s proof that the human/individual (host / biological being) survives as a distinct entity, witnessing the atrocities their body is being used to carry out.  And they mainly steal technology rather than developing it themselves, although both work on developing some as well.

(Many differences too, of course, including their fundamental motivation, but I’d not realised the similarities before.)

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^ I never previously noticed Craig sticks his tongue out at the end there.

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Oh my, that’s tantalising.  I could technically afford it (if no one else bids) and it’s not something that would take up much space (of which I have none going spare), but … I really couldn’t justify it.  

Oh well.  I hope if it gets bought, the new owner enjoys it!

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Is Kryten wearing a wedding ring?

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I’m intrigued how the plumbing would work and be durable.

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And the elbow bands definitely aren’t there to hide the seams where the short-sleeved T-shirt has been extended into a long-sleeved one.

I’d have to look carefully at the episode rather than just the one still to see whether I’m totally wrong, but *in that frame* it looked like they’re on a short-sleeved top he’s wearing over a long-sleeved one.

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The sketch itself is funny, but shouldn’t the old 14B be made of metal or something? It looks like a long Q-tip with its ends removed. How is that gonna help?

I have not previously consciously thought about this but … I’m just realising now, I honestly conceptualised it as a length of catheter tubing!  Not because of the hole in the centre, just that’s my brain’s most immediate frame of reference for plastic tubing. 

Not that I actually think it is that, just that’s what I related the props to.

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Score: 0.0

Wrong guesses: 60

Clues peeked: 7

Answers revealed: 2

Score breakdown
Base score: 100.0
Wrong guess penalty: -120.0
Peek penalty: -35.0
Reveal penalty: -40.0
Final score: 0.0

Total keystrokes: 467

Minimum keystrokes needed: 145

Excess keystrokes: 322

I still don’t understand how it worked!  Most of those ‘wrong guesses’ were correct words just in the wrong place … I have no idea where it even started.  About 5 of those peeks were because I realised it let me type there 😅  Fun though!  Thanks for making it.

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(this is from a gif, I haven’t checked the full-size programme)  When Cat’s looking through the dream recorder, Lister appears to be either properly knitting or giving it a very good go. 

It’s not all that common to see a character believably crafting like that.

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GIFs load slow as balls for me on this site but I always assumed it was a me issue

Same for me.  (Chrome on Android.)  I always open the page and leave it to load while I go and do something else 😄

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^ ha, I even commented, really truly had completely forgotten about it 😅 (I’d blame covid memory loss as the thread/comment date around the time I had it, but realistically I may well have forgotten anyway even without that.)

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Since then young ones & blackadder have joined my must have list on the format. 

Slightly off topic but I didn’t realise Blackadder was available on Blu-ray – I’ve just gone Googling and WOW!  Serious investigations into an external Blu-ray disc drive are required.

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I watched remastered TNG on Netflix in 2019/20 and the quality seemed good to me. 

It is for me too now.  At the time I bought the Blu-ray set, TNG on Netflix was still SD.  Although even if things had been different, if I’d learned about the remastered box set later, I still would have bought it and the player for the many many extras.  But if I hadn’t been fussed about those and just wanted the episodes, streaming would have been fine with the remastered on Netflix.

(Voyager and DS9 are a bit of a shock if you go to them straight from TNG!)

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I do have a Blu-Ray player but currently stuck without ready access to a TV to use it with (health situation – not well enough to go downstairs very often at all, and no space in my room for a TV; and family situation – even if I did, other family members are at home watching the TV most of the day anyway).

However if it hadn’t been for the remastered TNG set I think it’s fairly likely I wouldn’t have bothered buying a player yet, as most things are available to stream in HD or I have HD digital copies, or they’re only available on DVD so HD isn’t an option at all anyway (most older BBC sitcoms).

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How interesting. 
Hopefully they work on their app before this is delivered because discovery of content is terrible.

The Channel 4 app is miles better than the U app (UKTV Play as was), at least on Android.  It doesn’t feel like it’s been updated at all in the last 10 years, it’s beyond dreadful.  There are shows on there I’d like to watch, but not enough to get me to endure the app.

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Looks awesome. And Big.

Pity I don’t do Blu-Ray. Bah. How are the Extras?

This is what made it actually click in my head that this is a Blu-Ray set (despite taking the mick out of previous AI cover versions, I now remember). 

If I’m ever in a position to be able to easily play Blu Rays again then yeah I might get this.  Especially as we have a much better TV now since I was last in a position to do so

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01/10/2025 

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Oh I missed 2 days, completely oblivious.  Wow.

30/09/2025 

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27/09/2025 

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My streak was over 100, but has been reset despite not missing any days… 

How frustrating!  Mine kept getting reset for no apparent reason which is why I started keeping track on the thread, but I haven’t had a long streak for ages, and never even near 100.  

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I was going to feel sorry for Kryten, never able to sneeze, then I remembered he’s not a biological humanoid so has no need to sneeze anyway 

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The bit about contributions put a real sour taste in my mouth, until I read this from the (currently) most recent update:

“I have not made any posts asking for money or contributions, these (and I have been under the assumption) have solely been done voluntarily and a change.org feature, this money is not seen by me or anyone involved with Red Dwarf, it is used to promote the petition by Change.Org.
It can’t be turned off and is optional/voluntary. Not mandatory.”

Quite sad that people may have donated without knowing exactly where the money is going, not that I blame the person who set up the petition, it just isn’t a great situation.

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Ah, if it were Northampton (I kept getting the two mixed up for several years) I might have been able to go for half a day.  Alas.

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26/09/2025 

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That took an embarrassing number of guesses.

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You know what, I’m saving Birdman.  Eccentric and mostly harmless, certainly no malice intended by him.

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MP Thornton

Doc Newton

Doctor

Panel Woman Officer

Second Woman Officer

Last Woman Officer

First Ground Controller

Second Ground Controller

Guard (Cassandra)

Kill Crazy

Warden Knot

Man in Film

Mex

Young Kochanski

Young Cat

Baxter

Talia

Big Meat

Edit: sorry about the formatting, I can’t get it to cooperate 

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21/09/2025 

Trojan

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20/09/2025 

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19/09/2025 

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